Studies On Play For Children With Disabilities: Exploring The Interdisciplinary Approach

Play is considered one of the main activities carried out by children. It is characterized by several aspects, interconnected and investigated by researchers belonging to heterogeneous disciplinary fields. With the aim of grasping the interdisciplinary complexity around the topic of play for children with disabilities, the present systematic review was conducted. Scientific studies about play for children with disabilities were searched on three databases using key words and then the included papers were analysed through a specific reading form. The scientific fields of the journal containing the article included in the review, were retrieved using the classification system proposed by the SCImago (Science Citation Index) Journal & Country Rank (o SJR indicator), a public available portal that includes national scientific journals and indicators developed by the information contained in the Scopus database. Results highlight that the theme of play of children with disabilities is covered in a variety of scientific fields, belonging from medicine to human-computer interaction, and that the most represented scientific field of the studies where education and psychology. The scientific fields seem to reconfigure their percentages in relation to the characteristics ascribable to the different investigated disabilities.